Amber Isaac
- Visiting Lecturer
- Communication, Cultures, English & World Languages
EDUCATION
MFA English - Texas State University
BA Technical Writing - Missouri State University
RECOGNITIONS
• Winner of the 2024 Plancha Press Prize
• Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize by Writing Disorder
• Selected for the Spring 2012 and 2017 Missouri State Student Invitationals
• Nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize by Slipstream
• Nominated for a 2013 Best of the Net award by Penduline Press
PUBLICATIONS
Peppermint: Poems, published by Plancha Press (forthcoming 2025)
Remember the Internet: r/WatchPeopleDie, published by Instar Books (forthcoming 2025-26)
PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Poetry
• 2023 Skink Beat Review (Winter Issue): “Poetic Freestyle: On the Day Prince Died”
• 2023 Westchester Review: “The Parade was Never a Parade, but a Riot”
• 2022 Book of Matches: “No Vodka for Sale on the Sabbath” (with Valerie Wardh)
• 2021 Skink Beat Review: “Author Spotlight”
• 2019 Honey & Lime: “You’ll Get Us Both Killed”
• 2018 Prairie Schooner: “His Mother Was Sick”
• 2018 Cimarron Review: “Summer Labor”
• 2018 Writing Disorder: “Truce Poem,” “Blueprint,” “Really,” “Three Extra Dry Martinis in Boston”
Nonfiction
• 2021 Certified Forgotten: “Your Goo is Out of This World: Alien Horror in Gregg Araki’s Nowhere”
• 2020 Gayly Dreadful: “My Mother’s Guide to Video”
• 2019 Coachella Review: “My Accent Makes Me Beautiful”
• 2018 “On the Poetry of Performance or Poetic Realness (Essay).” Porterhouse Review
• 2022 Infrarrealista Review: “Al Norte by Juan R. Palomo: A Homage to a Family Drifting in Colors”
• 2022 Infrarrealista Review: “The Body is a Conduit of Pain: Reyes Ramirez’s The Book of Wanderers Explores Traumas and Systematic Inequality in Every Possible Future” (with Valerie Wardh)
• 2020 ScienceFiction.com: “Review: Confessional (2019) Continues Shudder’s focus on Invitational Horror.”
• 2020 ScienceFiction.com: “Film Review: Gretel & Hansel (2020).”
• 2019 ScienceFiction.com: “TV Review: American Horror Story 1984 (S9 E01).”
• 2019 ScienceFiction.com: “TV Review: Dragula ‘The Lesser of Two Evils’ (S3 E01).”
• 2016 Diabolique Magazine: “The Killing of America (1981) (US Blu-Ray review).”
• 2016 Diabolique Magazine: “In A Valley of Violence (Review).”
• 2016 Diabolique Magazine: “The Cinema Life of Linda Blair: Fatal Bond.”
• 2016 Diabolique Magazine: “In Case You Missed This One: The Exterminator (UK Blu-Ray review).”
• 2016 Diabolique Magazine: “The Cinema Life of Linda Blair: Grotesque (1988).”